ABOUT THE PROJECT
LOGLINE
In the aftermath of an unspeakable act of violence, a young man seeks forgiveness in the modern world.
SYNOPSIS
Wolfbiter seeks to explore ideas of forgiveness, empathy, and nihilism among today’s lost youth, and to shine a light on the struggle for meaning in a seemingly meaningless capitalistic culture.
The son of an immigrant, Yakov “Jacob” Babin, has just been released from federal prison after seven long years. In his absence, the world has only accelerated—the quiet Southern California suburb he calls home drowning in “content,” designer drugs, mental illness, and late-capitalist decay.
But Jacob is more than just an outsider—he is infamous. At seventeen, he orchestrated a school shooting that did not go to plan. His accomplice opened fire, severely wounding a child, before being killed by police. Though Jacob never pulled the trigger, the plan was his, and the world will never forgive him.
Estranged from his working-class parents, Jacob takes refuge in the home of his grandmother, Agafya, who urges him toward a compassionate, mystical view of reality he refuses to accept. Struggling to reintegrate into a society that sees him as a monster, he seeks escape—through a reckless romance with a self-destructive influencer, the slow collapse of his last remaining friendship with a lonely misfit, anything to escape the demons in his past.
When the past finally catches up with Jacob in a shocking moment of violence, he’s forced to seek forgiveness from the child he once helped destroy—or be swallowed whole by the abyss he’s been running from all along.
PROJECT TYPE Narrative Feature
DIRECTOR Carl Bird McLaughlin
SCREENWRITER Carl Bird McLaughlin, Sean Meehan
PRODUCER Carl Bird McLaughlin, Samuel Garnett, Sean Meehan
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